Anyone who has done serious air travel across time zones knows that the more you dread the jet lag the more it’ll affect you. MLB funded a sleep scientist to study how teams play after crossing time zones, and they found that the non-traveling team won only 40% of the time. Phil Birnbaum thinks (he can’t know because the study isn’t on the internet) the findings are questionable . This is what happens when you get a non-sabrmetrician to do what only a sabermetrician can do.